AI doesn't tell you the truth

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]And the real the real flaw here, I think, which is one that I see people fall for over and over and over again, is believing the generative the chat GPT or Claude are telling you the truth.

[00:00:12]Believing that if you ask it a question, it will answer factually and honestly. I know. I know in that little clip there that Claude said, "And to be honest."

[00:00:24]Doesn't mean that it's then being honest with you.

[00:00:28]What this guy maybe in this moment because he's just so so anxious to anthropomorphize or maybe maybe perpetually is misunderstanding what so many people misunderstand about generative AI is that it's not interested in reporting facts to you at all. That's not the purpose of it.

[00:00:45]That's not what it's programmed to do at all. The job of Claude and chat GPT is not to gather information and report it to you in a helpful way.

[00:00:57]What it is programmed to do is to predict the most likely answer that should be replied or could be replied to the questions that you are positing.

[00:01:07]Those are hugely different things.